Synonyms for babouche
| Grammar : Noun |
Définition of babouche
Origin :- 1690s, from French babouche, from Arabic babush, from Persian papush, from pa "foot" (related to Avestan pad-, see foot (n.)) + posh "covering." Arabic, lacking a -p-, regularly converts -p- in foreign words to -b-.
- As in slipper : noun shoe
- Mouley came shuffling up in his babouche slippers and we both ordered another schooner of beer.
- Extract from : « I'm a Stranger Here Myself » by Dallas McCord Reynolds
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